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I posted just 2 months ago about Foxhound and how I found it pretty cool, but also curious that it was one of very few themes around that combine the WordPress JSON API and React, even though they seem like a perfect natural fit. Like a headless CMS, almost.

Since then, a few more things have crossed my desk of people doing more with this idea and combination.

A recent tweet touted how Netflix increased performance by stripping React from its site. Burke Holland traces his initial reaction to the tweet and dissects it further to get to the heart of what it was really trying to say.

Accessibility is an aspect of web development that is often overlooked. I would argue that it is as vital as overall performance and code reusability. We justify our endless pursuit of better performance and responsive design by citing the users, but ultimately these pursuits are done with the user’s device in mind, not the user themselves and their potential disabilities or restrictions.

A responsive app should be one that delivers its content based on the needs of the user, not …

As of WordPress 4.7 (December 2016), WordPress has shipped with a JSON API built right in. Wanna see? Hit up this URL right here on CSS-Tricks. There is loads of docs for it.

That JSON API can be used for all sorts of things. I think APIs are often thought about in terms of using externally, like making the data available to some other website. But it’s equally interesting to think about digesting that API right on the site itself. …

This post is going to dig into to React Router 4, how it’s so different from previous React Router versions, and why that is. My intentions for this article aren’t to rehash the already well-written documentation for React Router 4. I will cover the most common API concepts, but the real focus is on patterns and strategies that I’ve found to be successful.

Let’s take a look at Hoodie, the “Back-End as a Service” (BaaS) built specifically for front-end developers. I want to explain why I feel like it is a well-designed tool and deserves more exposure among the spectrum of competitors than it gets today. I’ve put together a demo that demonstrates some of the key features of the service, but I feel the need to first set the scene for its use case. Feel free to jump over to the …

Today we’ll be adding authentication (via Google Authentication and Firebase) to our Fun Food Friends app, so that only users that are signed in can view who is bringing what to the potluck, as well as be able to contribute their own items. When users are not signed in, they will be unable to see what people are bringing to the potluck, nor will they be able to add their own items.

In Part 1, I went over various functional-style techniques for cleanly rendering HTML given some JavaScript data. We broke our UI up into component functions, each of which returned a chunk of markup as a function of some data. We then composed these into views that could be reconstructed from new data by making a single function call.

This is the bonus round. In this post, the aim will be to get as close as possible to full-blown, class-based …

… before web components came around, you had to wait on all browsers to agree on a new element (like, a date picker). And even after they agreed on a new element, it took them yeaaaaars to implement it… With web components, web developers get to write such elements, so that you don’t have to wait for 10 years before all browsers agree that they should implement a date picker.…

Let’s take a look at building something using Firebase and React. We’ll be building something called Fun Food Friends, a web application for planning your next potluck, which hopefully feels like something rather “real world”, in that you can imagine using these technologies in your own production projects. The big idea in this app is that you and your friends will be able to log in and be able to see and post information about what you’re planning to …